CHRIS Long ago, in these very woods, lived an old woman by the name… of Jenny Greentree.

CHRIS shines the flashlight onto his face from under his chin.

GIRLWhooo!

The camera pans out and we see there are four people around the campfire – CHRIS, the GIRL sitting next to him, and another teenage boy, RAY, and girl, CHLOE, sitting close together on the other side of the fire.

CHRISForced out after her family was killed in a fire. She lost everything. Some say, even her humanity.

RAYThat is so sad.

CHLOEShut up!

CHRISIt’s a true story, Ray. Look.

CHRIS shines a flashlight onto the letters “JG” carved into a nearby tree.

CHRISShe carved her initials into that tree… right before she died.

GIRLThose are not her initials.

We see the scene from a distance, as if through someone else’s eyes.

CHLOESo, how’d she die?

CHRISOne night, a blizzard hit. She’s cold, she’s hungry, nowhere to go, no one to turn to. Jenny Greentree froze to death… right beneath that tree. And her evil spirit has haunted these woods ever since.

CHRIS shines the flashlight onto his face from under his chin and grins creepily. RAY gooses CHLOE and she jumps. RAY laughs.

GARTHAll's forgiven. Take a seat. Tell me about Trevor McAnn. Other night up at Widow's Peak.

The girls speak simultaneously:

GIRLOkay. Well, at first it was just like he was super-drunk.

CHLOE All right. It was weird 'cause he was super-drunk.

GARTHWhoa. You. [Points to the GIRL] Go.

GIRLIt was Jenny Greentree.

CHLOE Shut up! Okay? She's just a dumb legend.

GARTHHold up. Who?

GIRLJenny Greentree. My dad says she really died in the woods. And she's buried in the town cemetery.

EXT. – CEMETERY – NIGHT

GARTH is digging in front of Jennifer Greentree’s headstone.

GARTHAll right, Jenny G. [He pours salt into the grave.] Your ganking days are over. [He lights a match and tosses it into the grave.] You've been Garthed.

GARTH walks back to his vehicle in slow motion as "Poison" plays.

♪ I was at the bar, shake, breakin', and taking 'em all ♪

♪ And that night, I played the wall ♪

♪ Checkin' out the fellas, the highs, the lows ♪

♪ Keepin' one eye open, still clockin' the hoes ♪

♪ There was one particular girl that stood out from the rest ♪

♪ Poison as can be, the high power chest ♪

♪ Michael Bivins here, and I'm runnin' the show ♪

♪ Bell, Biv, DeVoe ♪

♪ ha ha ha ♪

CAR – NIGHT

RAY is sitting in a car with a bottle of alcohol beside him. He pushes a button on his cell phone.

CHLOE (voice message)Ray, where are you? [RAY drinks from another bottle.] You should be with your family right now. Don't do anything stupid. Please.

RAY hits a button to stop the message and takes another drink. He gets out of the car, carrying a rifle.

EXT. – WOODS – NIGHT

RAY walks through the woods with his rifle. He sees a long-haired woman in a white dress through the trees and runs towards her. He pauses and looks around, then screams as he is dragged upwards. His legs shake and there is the sound of flesh tearing. Blood runs down his legs and onto his boots and the ground. RAY goes still.

EXT. – NIGHT

GARTH is talking on his phone in front of a food van that reads “Guanaco Salvadoran Cuisine.”

MARIEWell, Dale was sensitive. But what do you do – watch them 24/7? You can't blame Dale's friends.

DEANBut your dad still feels bad.

MARIEAnd it doesn't help Dale's wife is suing us.

DEANReally? Why?

MARIEShe's angry and grieving, and this is America?

CUT TO: SAM and GARTH talking to RANDY BAXTER in the office.

RANDY BAXTERI knew Ray and Trevor. Hell, I'm godfather to all four of Jim's kids. Ray and Trevor loved their fun, but they'd never do anything crazy.

GARTHNo rugrats of your own?

RANDY BAXTERJust Jim's. They'd borrow my car, raid my fridge.

SAMNow, the two of you started this company with a third partner. Right?

RANDY BAXTERYeah. Dale. [The camera pans in on two framed photographs of the three men.] He passed away a few months ago.

GARTHPassed away in the woods or...?

RANDY BAXTERHe took his own life.

GARTHOh. Sorry.

RANDY BAXTERWell, he had problems for a long time. Look, this is just a nightmare.

SAM notices a wooden box with Japanese characters written on it next to a tray of drinks behind the desk.

RANDY BAXTERFirst Dale, now this. This was gonna be our big year. We're selling Thighslapper to one of the largest distributors in the US. It's been in the works for months. News is gonna hit public pretty soon.

GARTHWell, that's the brass ring, huh?

RANDY BAXTERGiven other circumstances, yeah, we'd be celebrating right about now.

INT. – HOUSE – DAY

We see a close-up of a family photo of JIM MCANN, RAY, TREVOR, MARIE, another woman, LILLIAN, and a YOUNG GIRL on LILLIAN’s lap.

LILLIAN is carrying a bottle of vodka in the kitchen. She pours some into one of two glasses of orange juice and takes a sip, then carries both glasses to the next room, where the YOUNG GIRL is drawing at a table.

LILLIANThat looks great, sweetie.

LILLIAN sets both glasses on the table. There is a knock at the door.

JIM MCANNHello?

WOMANThere's Grandpa. Hi.

LILLIAN walks to the entryway and hugs JIM MCANN. The YOUNG GIRL picks up one of the glasses of orange juice and takes a drink. From her face it is clear that she picked up the glass with the vodka.

YOUNG GIRLOops.

LILLIAN I'll get some snacks. You should eat.

JIM MCANNYeah.

LILLIAN Sit, Dad.

The YOUNG GIRL giggles.

JIM MCANNHey, what you drawing?

YOUNG GIRLMy world.

The YOUNG GIRL giggles as she draws. She looks up and sees something move through the air and then a long-haired woman in a white dress walk into the entryway. The YOUNG GIRL gets up and looks around the entryway, then walks into the kitchen. LILLIAN is making sandwiches. The YOUNG GIRL can see the long-haired woman in the white dress standing behind LILLIAN. JIM MCANN walks into the kitchen.

JIM MCANNWhat is it, sweetie?

The YOUNG GIRL points. JIM MCANN can see only LILLIAN behind the counter.

WOMANWhat is it?

The YOUNG GIRL continues to point. LILLIAN turns and gasps as she sees the woman in the white dress. The YOUNG GIRL screams as LILLIAN turns to try to get away. The woman in the white dress puts her fist through LILLIAN’s back. JIM MCANN grabs the YOUNG GIRL and turns her face away.

JIM MCANNLillian!

JIM MCANN can only see LILLIAN, with her back arched and her arms outstretched. The camera angle changes to show LILLIAN from the front with the woman in the white dress behind her. LILLIAN looks down to see a hand protruding through her body beneath her shirt. She falls to the floor.

ACT TWO

INT. – MOTEL – NIGHT

GARTH is working on an EMF reader. DEAN is sitting on a sofa reading a journal.

DEANThere's a million things with claws go bump in the night.

SAM is sitting at the table using the laptop.

DEANOnce you throw in "invisible," the number goes down.

DEAN picks up a motel card on the table next to him.

DEAN"Afternoon Delights"? Really, Garth? Don't you think this place is a little, uh...

GARTHUh, you want a nice hot tub after a day at the office. It's the little things. I feel sad for those brewery dudes. Spend your life beautifying the world through beer. First a partner offs himself.

DEAN drinks from his flask.

GARTHNow two kids get ganked by unknown freakadeek.

SAMAccording to this, Dale wasn't just a partner. [The laptop screen shows an article on the Midwestern Brewing Company.] He was also the brewmaster.

DEAN"Brewmaster"?

SAMHe was widely considered a genius.

DEANAll right, that's it. [He gets up.] No microbrew is worth… [He puts his flask down on the counter near GARTH and the EMF reader starts to make noise.] ...what was it – eight Food Magazine awards? [He takes beer bottles out of the fridge.] Beer's not food. It's... [He puts a bottle down for GARTH.] ...whatever water is.

DEAN and SAM watch GARTH drink the entire contents of his bottle and shake the last few drops into his mouth. GARTH belches.

DEANWow. Party on, Garth.

GARTHI don't even usually drink beer. It messes with my depth perception. [He belches again and hiccups.] Especially when I skinny-dip. [SAM and DEAN look at each other.] Hey, you guys want to hear a joke?

GARTH Yeah, I-I burned my cousin Brandon, and he stayed stuck. And – and – and they got ghosts in India, and they cremate everybody over there. It's just instinct, but maybe there is EMF around here. It just ain't the job.

DEAN All right, we're not gonna talk about this, okay? Not in the middle of work.

GARTH Sorry.

DEAN’s phone rings.

GARTH Just hope that fire did the trick.

DEAN (on phone)Hey, Sam.

Yeah. Got it. We're on our way.

EXT. – BREWERY – NIGHT

GARTH is in the car, which is parked outside the brewery. SAM picks the lock on the brewery door and he and DEAN enter.

INT. – BREWERY – NIGHT

SAM and DEAN walk through the brewery to the office.

SAM Here it is.

SAM picks up the wooden box with Japanese writing, sets it on the desk and opens it. Inside is a fancy box decorated with a face and more Japanese characters, and inside that box is the bottle of saki. The seal is broken.

DEANYou have the CEO of the douchiest microbrew in the US gagged in your hot tub? You really think that's gonna end well?

GARTHI'm not feeling the love.

SAMAll right. Shojo. Uh, let's see what we can see. [He sits down at the table to use the laptop.]

GARTHWhat's Shojo?

DEANJapanese booze monster.

GARTHI guess that would explain why you got to be drunk to see it. Very poetic.

SAM does a search for “Shojo” and clicks on the first link, which is to the page “Open Minds to Deeper Knowledge.” The text is in Japanese and there is a black-and-white drawing. GARTH looks over SAM’s shoulder.

GARTHOoh. Creepy.

A message box that says “Translating Japanese text to English” pops up on screen and then the page appears in English. It reads:

A Shojo (Heavy drinker or Orangutan) is a kind of Japanese sea spirit with a red face and hair and a fondness for alcohol. Legend has it, that workers at the breweries in Japan have seen a Shojo lurking about after indulging in their products. With the right Spell Box you can harness a Shojo to your will. The legend is the subject of a Noh play of the same name. There is a Noh mask for this character, as well as a type of Kabuki stage makeup, that bares [sic] the name. The Chinese and Japanese characters for Orangutan are the same, and can also be used in Japanese to refer to someone who is particularly fond of alcohol. Fatal weakness: Samurai sword consecrated with a Shinto blessing.

SAMOkay. So, a Shojo is said to roam where there's lots of alcohol. There's lore saying that, back in the old day, if you were plastered enough, you could see one skulking around the breweries in Japan.

DEAN is refilling his flask with whiskey.

DEANYeah, but why is this one shredding brewers' kids?

SAMApparently, you can harness the will of a Shojo with the right spell box. Then you basically have an attack dog that you can sic on whatever sort of personal revenge mission you want.

DEANSo Dale nabs one to punish his pals.

SAMSend the bottle, sooner or later it's popped open. Then you have a Shojo that will do whatever Dale compelled it to do right here on the box.

GARTHWait. Except it's not killing the people that screwed him over.

SAMWell, Dale's widow said the company was his baby. So, if he really wanted his friends to feel what he felt...

DEANHe would take theirs. Well, their kids. Jim's, anyways.

SAMAnd Baxter was the godfather.

DEANAll right, skip to how do we gank it.

SAMGood news. It is killable.

DEANBut...

SAMBut only with a samurai sword consecrated with a Shinto blessing.

DEANWell... that's not a silver lining. All right, the Shojo already cleaned house, right? I mean, Marie's the last target standing, so... I'll hit the pawn shops and, uh, look for the sword, and you babysit Marie.

GARTH drops and catches an EMF reader, which starts to make noise.

GARTHYikes. Sorry.

DEAN grabs the EMF reader from GARTH.

DEANDon't worry about it.

DEAN turns the EMF reader off.

GARTHUnless I've got nothing to be sorry for.

DEANGarth.

SAMWhat's he talking about?

GARTHI'm concerned that Bobby might be haunting you. I-I brought it up to Dean, and he shot me down.

GARTHYeah. Well, I googled. Come to find his mother... was your secretary way back in the day. Of course, you were married to Mrs. B., so, uh... No way there's anything naughty there, right? What do you need to get? It don't matter what Dale knows about you, 'cause that thing out there killing the kids – it knows!

RANDY BAXTERIt didn't end well with his mom. She made me swear never to tell him.

GARTHOh. So much for that. Where is he?

RANDY BAXTERHe's, uh – he's at the brewery.

GARTH takes a bunch of miniature bottles of alcohol from under the counter.

RANDY BAXTERWorking the graveyard shift.

GARTHHere. [He tosses RANDY BAXTER the keys to the handcuffs chaining him to the hot tub rail.] If you care about that kid at all, don't call the cops on me just yet.

INT. – BREWERY – NIGHT

RANDY BAXTER’S SON sprays window cleaner all over the inside of the glass door. When he wipes it off, we see that the Shojo is standing on the other side of the door, but it appears that he can’t see her.

ACT FOUR

EXT. – STREET OUTSIDE JAPANESE RESTAURANT – NIGHT

DEAN takes a sword out of its scabbard and lays it down on a wooden box. The JAPANESE MAN is reading from a piece of paper.

JAPANESE MANIt says it's best to do this in a running spring.

DEANUh, yeah. I, uh… [Takes a bottle of spring water out of his jacket] I got it. Okay. We good?

The Shojo appears right in front of GARTH. GARTH smiles at it. The Shojo sends GARTH flying into a wall of glass windows. RANDY BAXTER’S SON runs. He rounds a corner and stands with his back to the wall. As he starts to run for an open door, it slams shut. Large scratches appear on the wall in front of him. He opens the door and continues to run through the brewery. SAM appears from the other direction.

SAM Yeah. I'm – I’m skunked. Just, uh... [SAM looks to his right and sees an open door.] Fire exit. On three.

RANDY BAXTER’S SONOkay.

SAM All right?

The door slams shut.

SAM Okay. So much for that.

The Shojo appears right in front of SAM and throws him into the wall hard enough to crack it. SAM falls to the ground, unconscious. DEAN appears and puts a hand on RANDY BAXTER’S SON’s shoulder.

RANDY BAXTER’S SONAah!

DEAN Get back!

DEAN pushes RANDY BAXTER’S SON behind him and slashes with the sword. The Shojo hits him and he falls to the ground. The sword skids along the flood. DEAN sits up and looks at SAM, who is still unconscious. He then looks for the sword, which slides back along the floor towards him. SAM wakes. DEAN gets to his feet.

DEAN Where is it?!

SAM Uh, s-s-swing right!

DEAN slashes to his left with the sword.

SAM My right.

DEAN slashes again as the Shojo ducks.

SAM 3 o’clock, Dean! [DEAN slashes again.] 6 o’clock!

RANDY BAXTER’S SON ducks as DEAN swings the sword. DEAN then plunges the sword into the Shojo and takes his hand from the hilt of the sword. The Shojo materializes, screams and falls backwards as it disappears. DEAN picks up the sword.

DEAN You okay?

RANDY BAXTER’S SONI'm alive. Yeah.

DEAN Sam?

SAM Yeah. [He gives a thumb’s-up.]

DEAN Where's Garth?

RANDY BAXTER’S SONWell, he's – he's over this way.

DEAN Would you go get him?

RANDY BAXTER’S SONAll right.

SAM gets up and follows RANDY BAXTER’S SON. DEAN looks at the sword, and then in the direction from which it moved towards him.

CUT TO: GARTH sits up with a hand to his head as SAM and RANDY BAXTER’S SON approach.

DEANThe blade was across the room [flashback to the blade sliding across the floor towards DEAN earlier in this episode] and then it was in my hand. And then my beer [flashback to Dean holding an empty beer bottle in 7.11 Adventures In Babysitting] drank itself. [Flashback to the piece of paper on the bed in 7.13 The Slice Girls.] Oh, and then that page magically appeared on the bed. [Flashback to SAM holding the piece of paper in 7.13 The Slice Girls.] And – and then Bobby’s book fell down and out popped [flashback to Bobby’s address book on the floor and the Mackey’s Taxidermy business card in 7.17 The Born-Again Identity] the number of the guy who found Cas. Nothing, I’m sure.

SAMClearly.

DEANWell then what, Sam? Is Bobby here, or not?

SAMYou know what I think, Dean? I think that regular people, they see ones they lost everywhere too.

DEANYeah, freakin’ ghosts!

SAMOr they just miss ‘em a lot. I mean, they see a face in a crowd, we see a book falling off the table. Same thing, Dean. I did the talking board, I ran plenty of EMF. When that beer when poof – I went a little nuts.

DEANYeah, why didn’t you tell me?

SAMLike I said, little nuts at the time.

DEANAll right, well, if it wasn’t Bobby, then what Jedi’d that sword into my hand?

SAMThe Shojo slammed the door from across the room. Maybe it was trying to grab the sword, too.

DEAN[clears throat] Right. Right, I mean if it was Bobby, he would let us know. I mean, who knows more about being a ghost than Bobby? Instant Swayze, right?

SAMExactly.

DEANOkay. Okay, you – so your theory is that – that we’re practically regular people about something for once. All right. [They pick up their bags.] Well, you want to grab some brunch and some brews?

SAMUgh, no. I’m so hung over. Let’s just hit the road.

DEANAll right.

DEAN opens the door and motions SAM out. They leave the room. The camera pans out and we see BOBBY’S GHOST standing in the room looking after them. BOBBY’S GHOST sighs.

EXT. – MOTEL – DAY

DEAN and SAM get into the car. DEAN starts the engine.

DEANHang on.

DEAN gets out of the car and goes back inside the motel.

INT. – MOTEL – DAY

DEAN looks around the room. BOBBY’S GHOST is looking back at him.

DEANThere you are.

BOBBY’S GHOST smiles. DEAN walks towards him and picks up his flask.

BOBBY’S GHOSTI’m right here, you idjit!

DEAN pauses on his way out the door, but then closes the door behind him.